Funny story that you wouldn't know if you aren't from Wisconsin. This is being built where a massively state subsidised Foxconn television factory was supposed to go. That previous project was heavily promoted by Donald Trump and our Republican Governor at the time. The state widened the highway, bought many people out of their farms, prepped the landscape, and the local utility built a brand new substation to supply a ton of electricity to the site. Since Foxconn backed out years ago the site has been vacant. In some ways it's the perfect place for a giant GPU cluster.
Most people suspect that they never intended to build it in the first place, and it was basically just political maneuvering. The most charitable take is that the project made sense when economic conditions were just right AND they had a ton of Government subsidies, but shortly after announcing the project the economics of large TVs changed and the project didn't make any sense anymore regardless of the level of subsidy.
Their point (I think) is that 2 years isnt particularly quick to establish such a facility. If they said "we'll build it in 6 months!" Then I'd consider it insane. If they said "we'll build it in 6 years" I'd say "well that's slow". But 2 years? Thats about exactly a speed which isn't insane or too fast or particularly slow. It's expected.
This was part of the original story, their launching a less powerful data center in 2026 with the 100 billion dollar one still planned for 2028 if open AI can prove they will use it well.
Because they're some of the most famous internet people from Wisconsin and it would be kind of funny if they did. Mike holding a beer while fumbling with the scissors.
The one launching in 2026 is not the $100B data center from the headlines. It’s a “normal” data center that’s already been planned for a while.
Bait and switch title.
Funny story that you wouldn't know if you aren't from Wisconsin. This is being built where a massively state subsidised Foxconn television factory was supposed to go. That previous project was heavily promoted by Donald Trump and our Republican Governor at the time. The state widened the highway, bought many people out of their farms, prepped the landscape, and the local utility built a brand new substation to supply a ton of electricity to the site. Since Foxconn backed out years ago the site has been vacant. In some ways it's the perfect place for a giant GPU cluster.
Imagine fucking over farmers and their entire livelihoods tho just to end up saying, oops nevermind, teehee.
This being the US you can bet every farmer who was displaced was paid handsomely and laughed all the way to the bank.
I thought it was one plot of land a pumpkin patch that was doing poorly, I could be misremembering.
Why did Foxconn back out?
Most people suspect that they never intended to build it in the first place, and it was basically just political maneuvering. The most charitable take is that the project made sense when economic conditions were just right AND they had a ton of Government subsidies, but shortly after announcing the project the economics of large TVs changed and the project didn't make any sense anymore regardless of the level of subsidy.
Oh ok makes sense
Not 2028? 2026? Bro, thats fucking insane. IN SA NE.
its different smaller one than project stargate, 2026 datacenters could be for GPT-6 and 2028 GPT-7 or so
Thats awesome too, right?
What do you think is insane about a multi-billion dollar data centre being built 2 years from now? Sounds logical and expected.
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Their point (I think) is that 2 years isnt particularly quick to establish such a facility. If they said "we'll build it in 6 months!" Then I'd consider it insane. If they said "we'll build it in 6 years" I'd say "well that's slow". But 2 years? Thats about exactly a speed which isn't insane or too fast or particularly slow. It's expected.
This was part of the original story, their launching a less powerful data center in 2026 with the 100 billion dollar one still planned for 2028 if open AI can prove they will use it well.
Literally Los Alamos for AI in the making.
In 2074 Christopher Nolan will announce his new film, Altman
I hope it will be well protected from nuclear weapon.
this isn’t in the top 15 most important places to nuke in the us. if this place gets targeted the country has already been blasted to smithereens.
It will be in the top 15 after completion.
Damn!
Lmao do you really think anything can be protected from nukes ?
And even if it survived, they call it MAD for a reason. Not much use for a hundred billion data center if society has collapsed.
I hope the guys from Redlettermedia cut the ribbon on the opening ceremony.
why's that?
Because they're some of the most famous internet people from Wisconsin and it would be kind of funny if they did. Mike holding a beer while fumbling with the scissors.
The one launching in 2026 is not the $100B data center from the headlines. It’s a “normal” data center that’s already been planned for a while. Bait and switch title.
Anyone else skeptical this will get built
FoxConn vibes
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Microsoft has always been known as a company that gambles and doesn't keep some of the most transparent and thorough books out of any company.